Course student

This article deals with the officer candidate in Russia and the GDR; for equivalent rank in other armed forces, see Officer Candidates .

People's Police - Kursant -
Rank group	the NCOs
NATO rank code	OR-6 to 7 comparable
Rank Army / Air Force	VP / VP air
Marine rank	Course instructor VP-See
Abbreviation (in lists)	K
Grade	NN

Course student with dance partner, 1953 Rank = sergeant major (shoulder piece) Letter A = candidate (officer)

As a cadet were referred to in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the East German members of the German People's Police , the People's Police Willingness , including VP-readiness lake, and the Kasernierten people police from 1945 until the mid-1950s in the appointment of a professional police officers and professional soldiers, according to their application have been trained as officers after passing the security check and passing aptitude test. The curriculum vitae was thus a grade, but also a collective term for a career or career group. With the introduction of the Russian term kursant, the name Fahnenjunker , which is common in the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr, was avoided for officer cadet ranks.

history

Cadet is of Russian Курсант derived and goes to the significance course , students back. After the collapse of the Imperial Russian Army in 1918, Kursant (en) became the official designation for soldiers or persons of the Red Workers 'and Peasants' Army during their training at a military educational institution in the Soviet Union. In September 1918, for example, the course participants who were instructed to train as machine gunmen in the Moscow Kremlin (today the Special College for Officers and Commanders in Moscow) were given the unofficial title of Kremlin course students .

Kursant was sometimes used as an honorary title. As the best-known holder of this award, VI Lenin received the honorary title of cursory officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion in February 1922. The Podolski cursors also gained notoriety during World War II. The independent association belonged to the 43rd Army in October 1941 and was able to excel in the defense of Moscow.

Development in the GDR

The name was introduced after 1945 in a number of the countries occupied by the Red Army . So also in the Soviet Zone and GDR. The address read: Comrade Kursant . They corresponded to the officer candidates of the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr . In the armed organs of the GDR, the designation was later replaced by the rank and the official designation of officer student / ensign student.

The uniform corresponded to that of the professional police officers / professional soldiers. The peaked cap had the black lacquer chinstrap, as was the case with all subordinate officers or officers of equal rank. In addition, the brown leather belt with a double pin closure.

present

In the armed forces of most states, based on the rank designation midshipman and officer cadet, separate rank designations are used in anglophone armed forces for soldiers during their training as officers. Some examples are given below.

•  Bulgaria → Bulgarian Офицерски кандидат / Ofizerski kandidat
•  Denmark → Danish Fændrik
•  Germany → Officer Candidates ( Fahnenjunker , Ensign and Oberfähnrich )
•  France → French aspirant / Élève-officier
•  Italy → Italian Allievo Ufficiale I
•  Canada → English Eleve-Officier / Officer cadet
•  Netherlands → Dutch Vaandrig / Kornet
•  Austria → Ensign
•  Russia → Russian Курсант / Kursant
•  Spain → Spanish Teniente segundo
•  United Kingdom → English Officer cadet
•  United States → English Cadet / Officer candidate

Russia

In Russia, however, this term is still used today. The soldiers (course participants) concerned, for example from the officers' colleges, had the gold-colored letters "K" for courser on the shoulder pieces of the cloth uniform until the 1990s. From 2010, independent shoulder boards were introduced for course participants, which also showed the current OR rank.

Russian airborne troops , Kursanten 2005

Field uniform

OR-1

OR-2

OR-4

OR-6

OR-7

OR-8

Russian naval navy parade uniform 1994-2010

Course student in everyday uniform 1994–2010

Russian Army from 2010

Mrs. Lt. with course students , on Ryazan 2013

Monument to the Kremlin curators in Moscow

Police, Russia

Tajikistan

The Armed Forces of Tajikistan now also use the term cursors for students at officers' colleges:  

Kursant Tajikistan

Special feature:
The course student is Tajik, but wears a Kazakh uniform. The cockade on the peaked cap and the flag on the uniform tie again refer to his Tajik origin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The abbreviation "OR" used in NATO stands for " English Other Ranks / French sous-officiers et militaires du rang / German  other ranks, officers excluded / Russian другие ранги, кроме офицероф " .
2. ↑ МКПУ ("Special College for Officers and Commanders in Moscow")
3. ↑ Military literature - memoirs - Lobachev А.А.
4. ^ The Podolski Kursanten and the 312nd Kazakh Division.